Pavan Kumar

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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Devops Engineer @ Microsoft
United States
Pavan Kumar's Location
Dallas, Texas, United States, United States
About Pavan Kumar

As a Sr. Azure Cloud Platform Engineer at Southwest Airlines, I am responsible for managing and optimizing the Azure infrastructure and services, as well as migrating on-premises storage and workloads to the cloud. I have a Master's degree from the University of North Texas and multiple certifications in Azure and DevOps.With over 8 years of experience in IT, I have developed a strong skill set in cloud platforms, container orchestration, CI/CD, configuration management, Linux system administration, and scripting languages. I have successfully implemented and maintained Azure VMs, AWS EC2 instances, Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, and Jenkins pipelines, delivering high-quality and reliable solutions. I have also enhanced efficiency and productivity by automating various processes using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus, and PowerShell. I am passionate about learning new technologies and best practices, and I strive to contribute to the success and innovation of my team and organization.

Pavan Kumar's Current Company Details
Microsoft

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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Devops Engineer
United States
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Pavan Kumar Work Experience Details
  • Microsoft
    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer And Devops Engineer
    Microsoft
    United States
  • Microsoft
    Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
    Microsoft Oct 2023 - Present
    • Expert in designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure, leveraging tools like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Blueprints for efficient provisioning.• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM Templates, Pulumi, and Ansible to automate provisioning and manage resources consistently across environments.• Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), VPNs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, NSGs… Show more • Expert in designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure, leveraging tools like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Blueprints for efficient provisioning.• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM Templates, Pulumi, and Ansible to automate provisioning and manage resources consistently across environments.• Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), VPNs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, NSGs, Azure Front Door, and managing access control through Azure AD, RBAC, and Azure AD B2C.• Skilled in monitoring and optimizing cloud environments with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Security Center, and Azure Policy, ensuring performance, security, and compliance.• Strong expertise in PowerShell, Azure CLI, YAML, and Azure DevOps for automating workflows, managing CI/CD pipelines, and streamlining operations. Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.• Extensive experience in cloud migrations using Azure Migrate, Database Migration Service, and Azure Site Recovery for workload and data migration, ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity.• Proficient in disaster recovery using Azure Backup, Site Recovery, and Blob Storage, ensuring critical data and applications are protected.• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing containerized applications with Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Helm.• Experienced in building serverless and event-driven architectures using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid.• Collaborative in working with teams to optimize cloud infrastructure, implementing DevSecOps practices, and ensuring security with Azure Key Vault, Security Center, Sentinel, and Azure Policy. Show less
  • Southwest Airlines
    Sr. Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
    Southwest Airlines Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
    • Expert in managing Azure infrastructure, Storage accounts, key vault, and workload deployment on Azure virtual machines (VM), Cloud Services, and Resource Groups, and the ability to design and maintain ExpressRoute, VPN, load balancers, V-nets, and Subnets.• Hands-on experience in migrating on-premises storage to Microsoft Azure through Azure site recovery and backups, as well as deploying Azure IaaS virtual machines and cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure V-Nets and subnets… Show more • Expert in managing Azure infrastructure, Storage accounts, key vault, and workload deployment on Azure virtual machines (VM), Cloud Services, and Resource Groups, and the ability to design and maintain ExpressRoute, VPN, load balancers, V-nets, and Subnets.• Hands-on experience in migrating on-premises storage to Microsoft Azure through Azure site recovery and backups, as well as deploying Azure IaaS virtual machines and cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure V-Nets and subnets using Azure Internal Load balancers.• Expertise in administration in Azure services such as Caching, Azure Active Directory, Azure Monitoring, API management scheduling, Data Factory, SQL Azure, and NoSQL. Implemented a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps (VSTS, TFS) to manage resources across various Azure subscriptions.• Worked with Version Control, Build & Release Management, and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA & PROD Environments leveraging Azure DevOps/VSTS concepts/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Application Insights, Log Analytics.• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products resulted in a solid understanding of Elastic Cloud Computing, Simple Storage Services, Glacier, Block Storage, Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Lambda, Virtual Private Cloud, Load balancer, Relational Database Service, and Cloud Watch.• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing Azure Kubernetes services, including containerized application deployment and management, and migrating existing microservice applications to the Azure cloud using Azure Kubernetes Services Show less
  • Discover Financial Services
    Sr. Azure Devops Engineer
    Discover Financial Services Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    Dallas, Texas, United States
    • Written playbooks to deploy cloud services, apps, and created modules in Ansible for continuous deployment automation. Used Prometheus as a monitoring and visualization tool to monitor Kubernetes nodes with node-exporter and monitor Kubernetes API and resources with Kube-state-metrics.• Responsible for storing and maintaining certificates and secrets for Azure APIM and Azure Application Gateway. And created Azure automated assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell run books that will… Show more • Written playbooks to deploy cloud services, apps, and created modules in Ansible for continuous deployment automation. Used Prometheus as a monitoring and visualization tool to monitor Kubernetes nodes with node-exporter and monitor Kubernetes API and resources with Kube-state-metrics.• Responsible for storing and maintaining certificates and secrets for Azure APIM and Azure Application Gateway. And created Azure automated assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell run books that will automate specific tasks. • Hands-on experience in provisioning Service Fabric Clusters and Application Gateway using ARM, PowerShell, or Azure Portal which is distributed systems platform to deploy and manage Microservices with high availability.• Migrated data from on-premises SQL Database servers to Azure SQL Database servers by creating Azure Data factory Pipelines with the Azure Data Factory copy tool and Self-Hosted Runtimes.• Worked with Version Control, Build & Release Management, and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA & PROD Environments leveraging Azure DevOps/VSTS concepts/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Application Insights, Log Analytics.• Responsible for creating CI/CD pipelines for .NET, python apps in Azure DevOps by integrating source codes GitHub, VSTS, and artifacts. Also expertise in deploying Azure AD connect, configuring ADFS installation using Azure AD connect by writing PowerShell scripts.• Provisioned Azure VMs with high availability using Terraform and ARM templates, developed new Terraform plugins to enable new functionality and was engaged in utilizing Terraform to move old and monolithic systems to Azure.• Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as code, Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation and Implemented Terraform reusable modules for deployment of applications across Azure. Show less
  • Galatea Associates, Llc
    Aws Cloud Platform Engineer
    Galatea Associates, Llc Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
    • Experience with AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, VPC, SQS, SNS, Red Shift, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting various Amazon images for server migration from physical servers into cloud environment.• Written AWS Terraform templates for any automation requirements in AWS services. Implemented multiple high-performance MongoDB replica sets on EC2 with robust reliability. Managed and supported AWS Security… Show more • Experience with AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, VPC, SQS, SNS, Red Shift, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting various Amazon images for server migration from physical servers into cloud environment.• Written AWS Terraform templates for any automation requirements in AWS services. Implemented multiple high-performance MongoDB replica sets on EC2 with robust reliability. Managed and supported AWS Security related issues, such IAM and S3 policies for user access. • Installed Docker Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub. Worked closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build failures.• Configured Ansible modules for AWS cloud deployment. Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment on AWS environments through automated tools, Ansible / custom pipeline.• Installed Splunk in production servers for logging purposes and built Splunk dashboards for application monitoring and used Splunk as a log monitoring tool for the Build, Test, and Deployment Environments.• Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies using SCM tools GIT, GitLab, Subversion, Bitbucket and experienced in migrating Bitbucket repositories to GitHub.• Managed Nexus repository to download artifacts during builds in Jenkins and integrated Ant and GIT to deploy project related tags. Integrated Maven and Nexus, Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy with Release for Git, Jira, and Cloud Foundry. Show less
  • Info Edge India Ltd
    Cloud Devops Engineer
    Info Edge India Ltd Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
    • As member of Release Engineering Team, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.• Built Puppet enterprise modules using puppet DSL to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to existing infrastructure by deploying Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and Puppet.• Developed Puppet modules with Jenkins for Continues integration and Continues deployment of managed… Show more • As member of Release Engineering Team, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.• Built Puppet enterprise modules using puppet DSL to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to existing infrastructure by deploying Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and Puppet.• Developed Puppet modules with Jenkins for Continues integration and Continues deployment of managed products, and related services.• Responsible for User Management, Plugin Management and End-to-End automation of Build and Deployment process using Jenkins.• Efficiently worked on building the data centers using Amazon Web Service, installed images on Amazon web services using Jenkins/Hudson, GIT and SVN. • Deployed applications using Jenkins server and Troubleshoot build & release job failures, resolve, work with developers on resolution. • Good exposure on all areas of Jenkins like Plugin Management, Securing Jenkins, Performance issues, Analytics, Scaling Jenkins, integrating Code Analysis and Test Phases to complete the CD pipelines within Jenkins.• Created a continuous integration system using Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Puppet full automation, Continuous Integration, faster and flawless deployments and worked with ANT tool to do the builds, integrated ANT to Eclipse and did local builds. Show less
  • Tenx
    Linux Administrator
    Tenx Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
    Hyderabad, Telangana, India
    • Created and modified application-related objects, Profiles, users, roles, and maintained system security.• Performed management and administrative tasks using shell Scripts Bash, Python, and CRON tab in Linux to automate the tasks.• Installing, configuring, and administrating DNS, NFS, NIS, Mail servers, FTP servers, RPM servers on Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora platforms.• Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server builds, Patches, Migration… Show more • Created and modified application-related objects, Profiles, users, roles, and maintained system security.• Performed management and administrative tasks using shell Scripts Bash, Python, and CRON tab in Linux to automate the tasks.• Installing, configuring, and administrating DNS, NFS, NIS, Mail servers, FTP servers, RPM servers on Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora platforms.• Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server builds, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring, and Fine-tuning on UNIX (Red Hat Linux) Systems. • Automated tasks like upgrading RPMs, kernel tuning, updating HBA Driver, configure SAN’s and managing Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Red Hat Linux.• Managed source code using SVN, GIT, GitHub repositories and implemented end-to-end automation for all Maven builds and deployments with Bamboo.• Set up Jenkins’s master/slave nodes and distribute builds on salve nodes using Jenkins, build-pipeline plugin, Maven, and GIT. Show less

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Pavan Kumar works for Microsoft

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Pavan Kumar's current role is Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Devops Engineer.

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Pavan Kumar attended University Of North Texas.

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